Rajan Patel

Rajan Patel

Rajan Patel

Rajan Patel, Ph.D. is a Search Scientist at Google. Rajan has lead several successful projects resulting in the integral use of live traffic experiments in search quality evaluation while also contributing as part of the team that developed Google Flu Trends. He is currently dabbling with various signals to improve the relevance of Google's search results while also thinking about new and better ways to measure search quality. More: Rajan's research at Google

Rajan will be teaching Stats 202 at Stanford University this summer. The course is offerred through the Department of Statistics at Stanford and the Stanford Center for Professional Development.

In his spare time, Rajan built a twitter trends site called TwiBuzz, and is trying to build a video recipe site.

Prior to joining Google, Rajan worked at Amgen, Inc. as a Senior Biostatistician and then Biostatistics manager. At Amgen, Rajan conducted statistical analyses for early phase clinical trials and pre-clinical trials. Rajan received his Ph.D. in from the Biostatistics department at Emory University, where he developed novel statistical methods to analyze functional connectivity of the brain using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data. More: Rajan's Emory webpage

Also check out Rajan's twitter profile and his linkedin page.

Rajan's CV: (pdf)

Kinnery Patel

Kinnery promises to write something here when she gets a chance. In the meantime, here's her linkedin page.

Kinnery and Rajan

We got married in August 2008. Check out our wedding website!

Pictures

Kinnery's Picasa page

Rajan's Picasa page

Dr. Sharad's (Rajan's dad) Picasa page


Rajan Patel